Leaked #PandoraPapers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers. Read the latest:

How offshore firms helped a mafia-linked Italian druglord hide a $230m fortune - ICIJ

Leaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of…

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south korea filings go deeper than most people expect: directors, shareholders, accounts, filing PDFs. handy for walking chaebol subsidiaries or checking whether a “dormant” shell actually filed during a trade dispute. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

The Canadian government will buy two Palantir licenses at a cost of $7.4 million each year — a continuation of a contract they say they "inadvertently" forgot to publicly disclose. Collab with my wonderful colleague @katrinaclarke.bsky.social theijf.org/article/defe...

Defence department to buy Palantir software for $7.4 million each year

Government says it ‘inadvertently omitted’ to announce contract with controversial American tech company

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swiss company records get oddly granular: AGs and GmbHs often expose shareholder history alongside directors and the registered profile. makes control changes easier to walk than in some larger registers. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

Our partner, Cerosetenta, was ordered by a judge to remove a joint investigation we published with them about a political candidate and his alleged links to members of an international neo-Nazi group in Bogota. Cerosetenta will now challenge that decision. cerosetenta.uniandes.edu.co/cerosetenta-...

Cerosetenta acudirá a la Corte Constitucional tras fallo de juez que le ordena eliminar investigación sobre presuntos vínculos de candidato con una red neonazi - Cerosetenta

Organizaciones que defienden la libertad de prensa reaccionaron a la decisión de un juez que restringe el derecho de los ciudadanos a conocer información sobre un aspirante a un cargo público.

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Belgian register filings list branch addresses alongside directors, so you can spot where a firm actually operates instead of just where it incorporated. Handy for cross-border KYB work. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

Good morning from the Southern District of New York, where former trader Reza Zarrab faces sentencing for leading a $20 billion sanctions violations and money laundering scheme involving Iranian oil proceeds. He pleaded guilty under seal and then cooperated with U.S. authorities for nine years.

liechtenstein filings go past the nameplate stuff. director swaps and capital changes show up in the actual company records, which makes walking holding structures far less guessy. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

canada federal corps leave a tidy paper trail: directors, PSC filings, company profile changes, all in one place. Handy when a shell company pops up in procurement paperwork or sanctions-adjacent reporting. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

A U.S. senator is pressing pharmaceutical giant Merck over its patenting and pricing practices after ICIJ’s #CancerCalculus investigation scrutinized their blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda.

Senator questions Merck over patent strategy for blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda - ICIJ

In a letter, Sen. Maggie Hassan cited ICIJ's Cancer Calculus investigation and expressed concerns that the pharma giant is boosting profits at the expense of patients.

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A businessman accused of ordering the murder of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has gone to trial in Malta's capital. He faces complicity and criminal association charges and is the last of seven men to face trial over the assassination.

Businessman accused of masterminding Caruana Galizia assassination stands trial in Malta - ICIJ

Yorgen Fenech appeared in court nearly a decade after the car-bomb killing of one of the country’s most prominent investigative journalists.

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monaco filings get oddly detailed: current directors, shareholder data, historical filings, downloadable PDFs. handy for walking ownership changes through holding companies. #KYC https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

Dutch filings get oddly forensic once you start walking the history: annual accounts sit beside each submission record, so you can see when a company changed status and who filed it. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

A battle over whether the public has the right to know how much Austria’s public hospitals pay for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda is heading to the Constitutional Court, a case stemming from ICIJ’s #CancerCalculus investigation.

Merck takes Austria’s Keytruda price transparency battle to top court as journalists fight for information - ICIJ

The case stems from ICIJ’s Cancer Calculus investigation into the world's best-selling drug’s sky-high price and its global consequences.

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This is a really excellent read from @sianushka.bsky.social. For many reasons which will become clearer, 2023 was a big year for the mysterious convergence of fringe UK and Montenegrin crypto politics concentrated mostly in a small Balkan coastal town... www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

Inside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in Montenegro

Why are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans?

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taiwan’s register exposes shareholder lists alongside current directors, so you can walk ownership changes instead of guessing from stale filings. handy for cross-border KYB work. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

hong kong keeps basic company records open: incorporation date, status, company type, registered address. handy when a cross-border KYB check starts with almost nothing. #KYC https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

The company that made the most from the trade was Dynacom Tankers, founded by Greek shipping billionaire George Prokopiou. Dynacom made at least $915mn in revenues shipping Russian crude since July 2023, according to FT calculations. This has been an issue for a while. www.ft.com/content/d851...

Greek shipping companies made almost $4bn carrying Russian oil in past three years

Dynacom Tankers, Stealth Maritime and Onassis Group boost revenues from transporting Russian fuel under G7 price cap regime

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Isle of Man company records go deeper than most people expect: profile data, filing history, then the actual documents lodged against the entity. Handy when a cross-border KYB check turns messy. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

From @artforum.com: Dozens of ancient artifacts were seized from the Met last month thanks to an intervention from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which had obtained nine seizure warrants since 2017, according to ICIJ's #HiddenTreasures investigation.

Dozens of Ancient Artifacts Seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The New York District Attorney has seized and repatriated dozens of illegally acquired ancient artifacts from the Met

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Working with Bellingcat researcher @sebkilli.bsky.social Vandermeersch, @dailymail.co.uk recently covered our analysis of several high-profile drone strikes that the United Arab Emirates government appeared to downplay, mischaracterise or simply did not acknowledge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4II...

The Iranian Strikes the UAE Didn’t Want You To See | Photo Evidence

YouTube video by Daily Mail World

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Iceland’s register exposes directors, shareholders, PSCs, plus the filing PDFs themselves. Makes KYB work less guessy. Ownership trails get easier once you can read the filings, not just metadata. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

A Bellingcat investigation uncovered the work of a wildlife trafficker in Myanmar, advertising everything from tiger bones, rhino horns, to leopard gallbladders, openly on social media platforms. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06...

Rhino Horn, Leopard Skin and Tiger Claws Sold Openly on Facebook - bellingcat

Bellingcat uncovers a Myanmar wildlife trafficker linked to endangered species sales, prompting account removals by Meta, WeChat, TikTok and YouTube.

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NZ company filings often include the signed PDFs themselves. Handy when you need the exact director name on a change notice, not a database summary. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

NEW: Citing @icij.org's recent #CancerCalculus investigation, U.S. senator questions #Merck over "patent gimmicks" to boost prices for the blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda and delay cheaper generics from entering the market. www.icij.org/investigatio...

Senator questions Merck over patent strategy for blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda - ICIJ

In a letter, Sen. Maggie Hassan cited ICIJ's Cancer Calculus investigation and expressed concerns that the pharma giant is boosting profits at the expense of patients.

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Australia’s register gives you live company status, incorporation dates, and current office addresses. Handy when an overseas entity turns up with three name variants in onboarding. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

spain’s register sticks director lists, shareholders and actos inscritos right on the company file, then attaches the actual filing PDFs underneath. makes board churn easy to date. #KYB https://openregistry.sophymarine.com

A US Senator has written to pharma giant Merck, citing ICIJ's #CancerCalculus investigation and expressing concerns about anti-competitive practices and sky-high prices of the company's flagship cancer drug Keytruda.

Senator questions Merck over patent strategy for blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda - ICIJ

In a letter, Sen. Maggie Hassan cited ICIJ's Cancer Calculus investigation and expressed concerns that the pharma giant is boosting profits at the expense of patients.

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A key figure in the Kinahan cartel, one of the world's largest organised crime groups, has a hobby. Ian Thomas Dixon's interest in padel left behind a digital trail that helped uncover the first public footage of him in almost a decade. youtube.com/shorts/6tN6d...

The Cartel Lieutenant Turned Padel Poster Boy

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ireland filings come attached to the company record, not split into a separate search. handy for KYB work when you need the incorporation docs or a status change date. https://openregistry.sophymarine.com